Back in 2007, Reggie Miller turned down an opportunity to join Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce in Boston, instead choosing to remain retired and continue to be the rare star who spent his career with one team. I asked him once about joining the coaching ranks, and he quickly shot down that idea with a simple, “No way.”

Reggie Miller, 47, is currently part of TNT's NBA coverage. (AP Photo)

Front office? Well, that might be a different story. If it were with the Indiana Pacers, of course.

“I never close any doors,” Miller told the Indianapolis Star. “I listen to everything. (Owner) Herb Simon and I have had this conversation before. So yes, if something presented itself, I would definitely look at it and go from there.”

In the meantime, Miller will spend the next few days on something that probably should have come earlier: his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame, the culmination of 18 years of stardom in Indiana.

Miller has established himself as one of the greatest shooters—maybe the best perimeter clutch shooter—in league history, having set the mark for 3-pointers made (2,560) that would eventually be surpassed by Allen. Miller was the star of a generation of shooters that helped to elevate the 3-pointer from a shot that most players and coaches didn’t trust to a staple of NBA strategy. He didn’t do it alone, of course, but he was the most prominent leader in that transformation.

In Miller’s rookie year, the average NBA team took 416 3-pointers in a season, making 31.6 percent. By the time he retired, the average team was taking 1,292, making 35.6 percent. Miller helped teams and players figure out that if you worked on 3-point shooting enough, you would make a high enough percentage to make the shot much more valuable than midrange jumpers. Ten times during his career, Miller averaged 40.0 percent or better on 3s.

But what was most remarkable about Miller’s time in the NBA was the dedication he had to his franchise. Miller played until he was 39, and scored 25,279 points—every one of them for the Pacers. His teams had the bad fortune to peak when Michael Jordan and the Bulls were dominating, and reached the Finals just once, in 2000—where they ran into Shaquille O’Neal and the ascendant Lakers. Their best chance at a championship probably came in 1998, when they got Jordan’s Bulls to a seventh game in the Eastern Conference finals, but ultimately suffered a five-point loss. Jordan had 28 points in that game. Miller had 22.

Even without a title, Miller remained—and remains—an iconic figure with the Pacers and in Indiana. “That was always something fun to watch,” said Chris Mullin, who played with Miller in Indiana for three years. “Just the way the crowd would get behind him. They knew what they had with him, and he gave them everything he could. It was a great relationship, it was something that is sort of unique in pro sports now, with free agency and everything.”

In fact, there are only two players in NBA history who have scored more points than Miller for just one team, John Havlicek of the Celtics and Kobe Bryant of the Lakers. That’s what makes the possibility of Miller rejoining the team such a fun notion. There is no question what Miller meant to the Pacers and to Indiana basketball—the only fitting way for him to return to the NBA would be if he were to go back to the team and add to the glory.